March 14, 2008

Two Opposable Thumbs Down

IDIOCY ILLUMINATED

With apologies to the Bayeux Travesty and the Tres Riche Heures of Chuck Berry ExpelledExecutive Producer Logan Craft is deeply, deeply shocked that a movie critic has seen his Darwin For Zombies opus without signing a non-disclosure agreement , and that the cad has had the temerity to actually review it.

Craft denies involvement in the online “media alert” from Media Marketing, shown below, but his film's official movie site displays the Motive Marketing logo and the a firm was founded by Craft's colleague, Promise Media executive Lauer , who writes :

We already had our first security breech [sic] and are asking YOU now for your support to stand up for EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed. Hosted by Ben Stein, EXPELLED contains a critical message at a critical time. As an underdog in Hollywood right now, we need your support.

Recently Robert Moore, a film critic from The Orlando Sentinel pretending to be a minister, snuck into a private screening, did not sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement, and criticized the film the next day in his article.

Yesterday, the vigilant Producers expelled P.Z. Myers, a scientists who appears in the film from a preview !

Myers was yanked out of line even before he got to the Non-Disclosure sign-in--little wonder the invitation Moore received from Promise Media bears the film's splendidly candid subtitle: No Intelligence Allowed-- many of the scientists Stein is depicted interviewing are simply not there- he is talking to an empty chair. The other half of several "interviews" are Orwellian cut and paste jobs assembled from footage of people he's never met, "answering " questions he's never put them.

More to the point , producer Mark Mathis failed to notice who else was in line- and got in un-accosted: